Ayatollah Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 I have an unbuilt Heathenly Hearse body gathering dust, and I do stack bodies when the size is similar. I buzzed the roof off of a resin Flinstone Superior and let it sit on the hearse roof for about two months, I took it off (tried to) to begin my 64 Cadillac superior and it was stuck. BAD! I pulled it loose and everywhere the resin rested against styrene it melted the plastic. Now, a week later the styrene isnt hardening. It's like gum in 6 places! I guess that '66 will be getting a superior roof in the distant future... :cry: :cry: :cry: Oh well, it will look great on there someday. When I get around to ANOTHER hearse roof graft.... UUUGH! Bet nobody has one of those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrObsessive Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 Wow! Yours is an unusual case in that I have never heard of that happening before! You mean you didn't add any solvents (glue, epoxy, etc...) to the area.......it was just resting against the plastic?? :shock: The only thing I can think of is whatever chemicals are in the resin have reacted with the plastic and there may be no fix for the model. If you have a digicam...........it would sure be nice to see this phenonemon! :shock: P.S...........you did mean Heavenly Hearse did you not? :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Posted July 4, 2006 Author Share Posted July 4, 2006 Like I said those spots are soft, I can move the soft plastic around like putty. I have never heard of this either, let it be a warning to you all! This also warrants some potentially interesting experimentation...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBoyle Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 The only time I have ever seen anything similar was when I was building my John Deere Rockcrawler. I was trying to figure out what to use for the front suspension and decided to try to make air bags from synthetic fishing worms. After cutting a section of the worm to look like an air bag I put it in the box with the kit. The next time I opened the box the radiator looked like the roof of your hearse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dag Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 I suspect that there was mold release on the resin piece that caused this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordairgtar Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 I don't think the mold release caused that. It's usually pretty inert stuff. At work, we use Stoner brand and it's nothing more than veggie based oil, similar to PAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordairgtar Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 You know, Ayatollah, I see Jimmy at our model meetings once in awhile, I'll ask him if his resin is strange in anyway that would cause it to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gowjobs Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 For awhile maybe a year or so ago, it seemed that Jimmy was having a problem with his resin - either it wasn't mixing properly, or something was causing some areas of the boies not to harden completely. I had heard of the problem from a coupl eof other builders online before I experienced it myself. Although not as strange a problem as you experienced with the Hearse roof, my Salt Flat '34 body had three or four areas where solvent-based paints wouldn't dry completely. Instead of doing the metal-flaked show car I'd originally planned, I ended up painting it in flat acrylics instead. (You might note the pearl suspension and chunky flaked flathead block.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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